Belmont and Woolen Mills
We plan to address the sustainability issues in the Belmont and Woolen Mills area using a sustainability evaluation chart to evaluate to what extent a neighborhood is sustainable based on certain criteria such as walk-­ability, pedestrian density and certain resources, such as access to schools and community engagement centers -in order to increase sustainability in these two areas.
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Belmont and Woolen Mills

Belmont_WoolenMills (click PDF)

Spring 2013

Team members: Maria Arango Arias, Timothy Banach, Suzanne Sharp, Thomas Trapnell, and Ryan Van Sickel

We plan to address the sustainability issues in the Belmont and Woolen Mills area using a sustainability evaluation chart. The purpose of this analysis tool is to evaluate to what extent a neighborhood is sustainable based on certain criteria such as walk-­ability, pedestrian density and certain resources, such as access to schools and community engagement centers. In the design of the evaluation tool, LEED for Neighborhood Development will act as a precedent; this precedent will form a basic framework that will be pruned and tailored to fit the factors that seem most prudent in the decision of whether or not a neighborhood or area is sustainable. This list of criteria will be created and a rating will be given to each in order of importance.

Lastly, our final results will be presented to Kathy Galvin of the PLACE Design Task Force. The bulk of our results will be organized onto a poster containing the sustainability evaluation chart, photographs, maps, descriptions, and findings. The PLACE Design Task Force will then be free to use our findings to promote sustainability in Charlottesville. This poster will be presented on May 2, 2013 and will communicate the issue our group focused on as well as our findings on how to increase sustainability in these two areas.

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